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English
Etymology
From trans- + -phobe.
Noun
transphobe (plural transphobes)
- A person who fears, hates or is prejudiced against transgender or transsexual people and/or transness.
- 1999, Gordene O. Mackenzie, "50 Billion Galaxies of Gender: Transgendering the Millennium", in Reclaiming Genders: Transsexual Grammars at the Fin de Siècle (ed. Kate More & Stephen Whittle), Cassell (1999), →ISBN, page 214:
- The object of scorn in the films are not transpersons, but the bigoted transphobes who are made to look like fools.
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Translations
person who fears or hates trans people